date:May 28, 2019
Even though Peru's potato production continues to increase, the country is often forced to import this product due to the size of domestic demand. According to engineer Celfia Obregon Ramrez, the executive director of the Center for Productive Innovation and Technological Transfer of Potato and other Andean Crops, this is the fifth year in which there has been an increase in the cultivation of potatoes in the country. Production went from 4,766,294 tons in 2017 to more than five million tons (5,